vegetable mercury
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Etymology
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Said to have effects on the human body similar to those of mercury.
Noun
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vegetable
mercury
(
uncountable
)
(
archaic
)
latex
of the
milkweeds
of genus
Calotropis
.
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mercury
unrelated plants that also have a history of medicinal use
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